We are delighted to receive these comments on Essential Articles 13!

"Absolutely brilliant. It gets better every year. Such an amazing breadth of topics covered. An essential purchase and essential reading for everyone who runs a school library. I love it."
Geoff Dubber, Chair, School Library Association, Sept 2010


"Wonderful Carel Press - you help make my life easier with Essential Articles etc."
Irene Marillat, Tolworth Girls’ School, Sept 2010

Essential Articles & Fact File subscribers are now entitled to 10% off all our resources!

Just enter the code ‘advantage’ into your cart before the checkout or quote it on your order.

This A4 pdf poster is free to subscribers to Essential Articles & Fact File. Subscribers can download it from Essential Articles online (extras section) You can print as many copies as you like.

New large poster to promote books and reading We've just published this A2 poster and we've been delighted by young people's reactions to it. It has been our most popular Reading and Library pdf poster and a number of people said they'd love to have it as a large size glossy poster. We think it works really well and we hope you like it too. Find out more

We are delighted by the response to our Fiction and Find It Shelf Divider Stands. We have sold out of the first making of the stands and in response to many requests the new making is slightly smaller, to fit more shelves, but the Fiction and Find It signs still fit in perfectly as before. The new size is: width 9cm, height 25.2cm, depth 20cm. People also asked for smaller stands and signs for fiction. So we are making a new set of smaller stands and signs for fiction: width 6.5cm, height 21cm, depth 15cm. Details are here.

Make an impact at the start of the new school or college year with this A4 pdf poster. It’s free to subscribers to Essential Articles & Fact File. Subscribers can download it from Fact File online You can print as many copies as you like.

The new posters will be available for download next week, but you can preview them below. New Posters for September
Reading and Library Posters
Funky Library/LRC Sign and Bonus Audio Books
World Issues Posters
World Drug Use & Global Heroin use map
Celebration Posters
International Literacy Day, International Day of Peace
Posters for English Make links with Connectives
UK issues
Prison numbers









To find out more about these posters or to subscribe, select a link below

Reading and Library posters
World Issues Posters
Posters for English
Celebration Posters
UK Issues
Special offer when you subscribe to 4 sets

To purchase an individual poster please select from the drop down below
Only £3.95 +vat each! Posters are emailed to you and you can print as many as you like!

Library Funky Sign LRC Funky Sign Audio Books Make links with connectives International Day of Peace International Literacy Day World Drug Use Global heroin use Locked up: UK prison numbers

There has surely never been a more important time to stand up and promote the library so we were pleased to receive this comment about our Reading and Library posters today:
‘An incredibly useful resource.’ Kathryn Tooley Development Manager, Hampshire SLS

Latest figures show a big increase in the number of people aged 50 and over catching HIV. If your students are interested in researching the issue of HIV, Fact File 2010 has statistics on new cases and how they were acquired (p110-111).

There’s an enthusiastic review on Teachers TV of our Great Library Ideas resource.

View it here.

We appreciate your comments on our resources:

Our monthly posters series (see Reading and Library posters, World Issues, UK Issues, Celebration posters, Posters for English) 'Really useful posters – you make my job a lot easier!' Ruth Mackay, Goffs School.

‘I love the downloadable research ideas for Essential Articles and Fact File - we're going to include them in the folders we prepare for NQT's taking up their first post with the school!’ Karen King, Oakbank School, Keighley. Please go to the download tabs on the Essential Articles and Fact File pages.

It's Poster day, the day new posters are released for our various PDF Poster subscription series

Subscribers to the different series will receive or can download the new posters
and individual posters are now available for purchase below.

New Posters for July
Reading and Library Posters
Read all about it!
World Issues Posters
Maternal Deaths
Celebration Posters
International Friendship Day
Posters for English 'They're,' a poster to help remember how this word should be spelt
UK issues
Fruit & Veg





To find out more about these posters or to subscribe, select a link below

Reading and Library posters
World Issues Posters
Posters for English
Celebration Posters
UK Issues

Subscribers to Essential Articles & Fact File can subscribe to four of the above series for only £59.95!

To purchase an individual poster please select from the drop down below
Only £3.95 +vat each! Posters are emailed to you and you can print as many as you like!

International Friendship Day They're Read all about it: LRC Read all about it: Library Fruit & Veg Maternal Deaths

Essential Articles and its companion resource Fact File work together to provide you with articles and statistics which are relevant, accessible and up-to-date. Key Organisations has a fully checked list of 3,000 organisations, pressure groups and societies.

Why not get all 3 resources for £99.95 including full site licences allowing home use by students and staff? £99.95 offer

The Resources for Issues EXTRA COPIES package - £135
The package proved so useful that many customers wanted more so our £135 package gives you 3 copies each of both Essential Articles & Fact File and a free copy of Key Organisations 2010. Extra copies are particularly useful when groups of students are researching topics, or for keeping one copy at the desk or to loan a copy to a teacher without depriving anyone else of the chance to use it. You also get full site licences. £135 Extra copies package

Both the £99.95 package and the £135 package are available on approval.

If you already subscribe to Essential Articles or Fact File we can upgrade you to one of these packages.

The latest version of our editable subject headings guide contains new terms and a page which explains how books are arranged in the library - you can see this at www.carelpress.co.uk/libraryresources/libraryskills/index.html#libraryfinditindex - click Show me more.

This new version is free if you've already bought the index - please email us. (If you've already amended your guide you can request the alterations to the guide and the new 'How books are arranged' page).

The Index costs £37.50 + vat or £24.95 + vat to subscribers to both Essential Articles & Fact File.

Thanks to Noelle Chambers of Evesham High School for sending this great photo of our 'NEW' sign used at A3 size in her wonderful display.

Visit our Reading and Library posters page to find out more...

This is the launch of Lucy Bakewell's book Off the Shelf at the SLA conference in Nottingham. (Lucy is the current SLA School Librarian of the Year)

‘Essential Articles and Fact File are excellent publications.’ Lorna Renshaw, Bedminster Down School.

Learn more here.

Spies are in the news again (and we thought the Cold War was history!) We have a free Spies library A4 pdf poster which subscribers to Essential Articles & Fact File can download from the Fact File log-in page For more posters like this see our Subject Spotlight posters

We've just received this enthusiastic email:
‘I’ve just had two determined ‘non-readers’ tell me that they’ve finished books which they were inspired to read by your Reading Game - what a result!’ Alice Fyson, English teacher, Kirkham Grammar School

The must-have guide to subjects and their classification numbers Based on the best selling Library Find It Index, this simplified version has the essential terms for a primary school library. • Flexible, easy to use • Instantly adapt to suit your library • Print as many copies as you like • Excel document - editable and printable • A listing in numerical order too • Two stylish personalised covers with your school name

FREE! World map when you request approval copies of Essential Articles & Fact File. This is a beautiful and eye-opening map which puts the developing world first! It's only a convention that Europe appears at the top of maps with the developing world much less prominent. This map (91x60cm) makes people look again at the world and is brilliant for discussion! (A laminated version is also available £19.95) With this special offer you get both Essential Articles and Fact File copiable books and full site licences for online access, as well as a free copy of Key Organisations AND this World Map. All for just £99.95! Existing subscribers to Essential Articles & Fact File can also receive a free map (while stocks last!) when you order something else from us. only £99.95

You can now download one page pdfs with Research & teaching ideas for Essential Articles and Fact File respectively. Please go to the download tabs on the Essential Articles and Fact File pages.

We are delighted to launch at the SLA conference Off the Shelf: how to run a successful primary school library and promote reading by Lucy Bakewell, the current SLA School Librarian of the Year. This is a copiable book which includes online resources. Off the Shelf has already been warmly welcomed: 'Excellent – it looks great. Really useful - lots of inspirational & practical ideas from an enthusiastic and dynamic practitioner' Geoff Dubber, Chair, School Library Association.

We're very pleased to hear that the Signs and Stands have proved a hit in Bury: 'I’m absolutely delighted with my Fiction Signs and Stands. I saw them in Ann Montgomery’s library at Bury Grammar Boys and knew I had to have them! I’ve recently returned to work from maternity leave to find the library looking a bit run down and tired and these were just the thing to spruce things up a bit. I can’t believe what a difference they’ve made to the overall appearance of our shelving - they were an immediate hit with our students who are now asking if we’re having the whole library refurbished!’ Elizabeth Ryder, Bury Grammar School Girls

Here we are again, it's Poster day, the day new posters are released for our various PDF Poster subscription series

Subscribers to the different series will receive or can download the new posters
and individual posters are now available for purchase below.

New Posters for July
Reading and Library Posters
What shall I read next?
World Issues Posters
Oil, a poster showing how much oil we are using, and the basic facts of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Celebration Posters
American Independence day, Bastille Day, Wimbledon & Tour de France
Posters for English 'There,' a poster to help remember how this word should be spelt
UK issues
Guns in Britain, facts about the number of Guns owned in the UK, in the light of the recent events in Cumbria





To find out more about these posters or to subscribe, select a link below

Reading and Library posters
World Issues Posters
Posters for English
Celebration Posters
UK Issues

Subscribers to Essential Articles & Fact File can subscribe to four of the above series for only £59.95!

To purchase an individual poster please select from the drop down below
Only £3.95 +vat each! Posters are emailed to you and you can print as many as you like!

What shall I read next Oil American Independence Day There Bastille Day Guns Wimbledon 2010 Tour de France

Our Fact File 2011 History of the World Cup page is now ready. We can email it in advance to any Fact File subscriber who would like it - email us

Already some areas of the country are experiencing worries about water supplies. If you are a Fact File subscriber we can send you in advance relevant pages from Fact File 2011 about water usage. Email us

We were very pleased to receive this suggestion from Ruan Peat, Wick High School:

‘I love your library posters and just started getting your World issues posters too. The cross curriculum ideas from the curriculum for excellence allows me to go to teachers in differing subjects and help them set up links for themselves e.g. RE and history for black history month or PSE and English for festivals etc as well as RE, this allows the librarian to be more of a facilitator.’

Following the dreadful murders in Cumbria, if students ask about the issue, we have in Fact File 2010 statistics comparing shooting incidents and ownership laws in different countries (p125)

When Romeo met Juliet is a brilliant BBC2 programme about the play being cast from 2 very different Coventry schools by the director of the National Youth Theatre. He says he 'loathed' Shakespeare at school: 'a lot of investment in education is ultimately for exams.'
If you are inspired by the programme (and who wouldn't be?) our Shorter Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is a very accessible introduction to the play.

World cup:
Recent news broadcasts have exposed the social problems in South Africa which are being highlighted by the World Cup. Our latest poster in the World Issues series will provoke discussion on what is happening.

For subscribers to both Essential Articles & Fact File there are also two free World Cup posters

Water shortages - advance information
Already some areas of the country are experiencing worries about water supplies. If you are a Fact File subscriber we can send you in advance the relevant pages from Fact File 2011. These give you the facts about water usage and how we can save.

Thank you so much for all the very helpful feedback about this. This free A3 poster is a guide to all the issues covered in Essential Articles 12 and Fact File 2010 and also explains how to use the resources online and where to log on. You can have up to 3 posters free - so you can also have posters in the staff room and key departments. Just email us and we will post them to you. We will also give them out at the SLA conference. You can also download the A3 poster here (click on the downloads tab). (A new poster covering Essential Articles 13 and Fact File 2010 will be available in September).

We have designed a free 'Research Issues' A4 pdf display header, featuring Essential Articles 12 & Fact File 2010. This could go above your shelves or on a noticeboard or display. Download here. For details of our special offer click here.

Here we are again, it's Poster day, the day new posters are released for our various PDF Poster subscription series

Subscribers to the different series will receive or can download the new posters
and individual posters are now available for purchase below.

New Posters for June
Reading and Library Posters
'Reading takes you to another world,' plus 2 free posters to celebrate the world cup in South Africa this year!
World Issues Posters
Out of sight, out of mind?
This poster is a discussion starter about the issue of evictions surrounding the World Cup Posters for English 'Their,' a poster to help remember how this word should be spelt and used
Celebration Posters
2 World Cup posters, World Oceans day and Recycle Week





To find out more about these posters or to subscribe, select a link below

Reading and Library posters
World Issues Posters
Posters for English
Celebration Posters

To purchase an individual poster please select from the drop down below
Only £3.95 +vat each! Posters are emailed to you and you can print as many as you like!

World Cup: Red with Football in net World Cup: Red with large football World Cup: Blue World Cup: Africa map Out of sight, out of mind Reading can take you... World Oceans Day Recycle Week Their

We have produced 2 A4 pdf posters for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa (11th June - 11th July). These are free to subscribers to both Essential Articles & Fact File as well as to subscribers to our Reading and Library posters series. They can be downloaded from the Fact File online page or the poster download page using your subscriber password. (Variations are available with the wording ‘in the library’ and ‘in the LRC’)

We're delighted that Robbie White, our website designer who was injured just before the final of BBC1's So You Think You Can Dance, has been offered the role of Cici in the new production of Flashdance choreographed by Arlene Phillips. He’ll also be cover for Jimmy - the second male lead. The show opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London on the 24th September.

He very much appreciated everyone's support during the show and all the messages afterwards!

www.flashdancethemusical.com/
www.facebook.com/flashdancethemusical

We’re pleased to say that this poster is now in print again and in stock.

We appreciate all the helpful feedback about our new editable subject headings guide. We're releasing today a revised version. This is available without charge if you've already bought the index, a list of the changes has also been released.

To get this, please email us

We have been delighted by the enthusiastic response to our new Subject Spotlight Posters:

‘I think these are simply stunning. Professional display material at an affordable price is hard to find for school libraries so it’s great that Carel Press has done it again. I can think of loads of uses for these posters as resources in information skills lessons not just as display material.’ Eileen Armstrong, Cramlington Learning Village

‘These are gorgeous and sum up everything that needs to be conveyed about the classification system.’ Maggie Thomas, Hextable School

‘Brilliant designs’ Karen Usher, South Hunsley School

In response to feedback we have added variations in class number for several of the posters which you can see in the preview box here

If you have already bought the set and would like any of the variations then the updated version is free - just email us.

We are delighted to introduce the new Subject Spotlight Posters • A set of 44 beautiful PDF posters highlighting key subjects with their Dewey numbers • Print as many as you like! • Each poster comes in 3 sizes for maximum flexibility: A3, A4 & A5 You can order as many or as few from the set as you like: • Order the complete set of 44; only £1.71 per poster! • Sets of 10, where you choose which you would like • Also available individually Already we have received a fantastic quote regarding these posters: "BEAUTIFUL, definitely value for money...gorgeous, modern, bright and extremely eye catching...different sizes give us the option of having them on the shelves or walls" Nikki Heath, School Librarian of the Year, Werneth School To find out more, and to browse the complete collection of Subject Spotlight Posters please click below

World Press Freedom is a vital issue which we have covered a number of times in Essential Articles and Fact File, and now we have designed an A4 pdf poster to celebrate World Press Freedom Day on 3rd May. The poster is free to Essential Articles and Fact File subscribers (just log to the Essential Articles or Fact File online pages to download it). Subscribers to our Celebrations posters series can also download it in the usual way.

It's here! The first Poster Day!

From now on we will be releasing all our new Posters on the 15th of each month for the next month.

Subscribers to the different series will receive the new posters directly
and individual posters will be made available for purchase.

New Posters for May
Reading and Library Posters: Book of the week
World Issue Posters: Afghanistan
Posters for English: Direct Speech
Celebration Posters: Walk to School week & International day of families

To find out more about these posters or to subscribe, select a link below

Reading and Library posters
World Issues Posters
Posters for English
Celebration Posters

To purchase an individual poster please select from the drop down below
Only £3.95 +vat each!

Direct Speech PDF poster Walk to School PDF poster Book of the week PDF poster International day of families PDF poster Afghanistan PDF poster

We are delighted that Sport Matters has been recommended as a resource for GCSE PE (AQA) 2010. View AQA GCSE PE resource list here What is Sport Matters?

Our shortened, original language, edition of Macbeth is now released in a new edition with full colour production photos throughout. There’s a wide range of dramatic action photos including Patrick Stewart as Macbeth. This is an accessible, attractive introduction to the play which puts the emphasis on young people’s understanding and enjoyment. The book is a must for English departments and libraries and is available on approval. Read more here where you can also view sample pages.

Forthcoming book by the School Librarian of the Year! We are delighted to have been chosen by Lucy Bakewell, SLA School Librarian of the Year, to publish her forthcoming book, Off the Shelf. This will be a brilliantly practical resource about how to run a successful primary school library and promote reading. Secondary school librarians will also find Off the Shelf to be a source of inspiration. Primary librarians click here Secondary librarians click here

The new Library catalogue in now available to download.
Download here

Library Find It Index: ‘What an excellent idea! I’ve often wished I had a printed subject index in addition to my one OPAC but having produced one in the past I know how much effort it takes and have always gone pale at the thought. And I’ve never wanted to buy any of the ones available precisely because some of the numbers wouldn’t match what I use. So this will save me so much work and the fact I’ll be able to adapt it is brilliant. Thank heavens for Carel Press!’ Mrs Alison Lainchbury, The Leys School, Cambridge

We were pleased to receive this email today:

‘I just wanted to thank you, not only for the wonderful vibrant posters your company is producing but also the excellent and efficient service you offer.

We have a member of staff who is going out to our link school in Kenya next week to work with them for two weeks on a variety of projects. I have printed off a set of the English posters I have received so far and we have laminated them (apparently the termites will eat the paper if we don’t!) for her to take with her to hopefully brighten up a very disadvantaged school.’

Kath Howard, Royal Manor Arts College, Portland, Dorset

These are the new posters in our series: Reading & Library posters, World Issues, Posters for English and Celebration posters

"Fact File 2010 presents statistics in a cohesive and attractive way, which would definitely appeal to students ... Good value for money"

Key Organisations 2010: "A beautifully presented up-to-date guide ... Every educational establishment in the UK should have access to this extremely useful publication ...The information is the gateway to a huge galaxy of up to date contacts ... There are details of some fascinating websites to explore ... Online access is excellent value." Refer journal , 2010

Both these resources are available on approval.

Subscribers to the Celebration posters series can download this poster

‘I would like to thank Stan Barrett, author of It's All Talk and Take 5, for his wonderful books. I have been using his lessons for over seven years now and the students I teach just love them. Nothing else comes close! THANK YOU, Carel Press, for publishing such great works!’ Sharon Walter

A few people have told us recently that they weren't aware of our 5 pack special offers on both Fact File 2010 and Essential Articles 12. In either case you can buy 5 copies of each book and also get a full site licence for just £99.95. And if you order a 5 pack of either this week we'll personalise a World Book Day poster for you.

The poster has been widely welcomed: 'Thanks for an excellent World Book Day poster.' Karen Benoy, Heathcote School.

Thanks to Sue Bastone for inviting me to this. It was a pleasure to meet such a lively and well informed group. Sue kindly said that 'Carel Press always seem to provide exactly what we need!'

These are the new posters in our series: Reading & Library posters, World Issues, Posters for English and Celebration posters

We were thrilled to receive this comment: ‘Carel Press are so inspiring and truly respond to their customers. Best value-for-money company out there!’ Carolyn Copland, Kirkham Grammar School

Robbie White, our website designer, was injured out of the final of BBC1's So You Think You Can Dance. In this short video he thanks his supporters. If you can’t access YouTube you can download this from http://files.me.com/carelpress/jnnd14

A friend cut a video of some of his earlier highlights in the series before his injury and we've shown it in a couple of school assemblies to promote the themes of dedication, hard work and not giving up. Again, if you can’t access youtube you can download here http://files.me.com/carelpress/i2k4xt.mov

We were very pleased to receive this comment about our Shelf Dividers from Helen Farrar, Cockermouth School:
‘They look great and have elicited lots of responses from the kids (“Why are there letters on boxes, Miss? Are the books in alphabetical order?” Duh! Anyone would think I didn’t have guiding before or that I hadn’t told them repeatedly…). They are very smart and really stand out, making it clear even to the aesthetically challenged, that there is some kind of order to things!’

We are very sad that Robbie White, our website designer, is out of BBC1's So You Think You Can Dance with a dislocated shoulder which happened when he was rehearsing a hip hop routine. He has done brilliantly, danced his heart out and lit up Saturday evenings. He sends his thanks to everyone for the brilliant support.

Robbie White, our website designer, has asked me to pass on his thanks to everyone who has supported him in So You Think You Can Dance. This is the BBC1 show to find Britain's favourite dancer and Robbie is now through to the final on Saturday at 7.45pm. Once again we hope he will earn your votes.

Robbie is an excellent role model for boys. Robbie didn't go away to stage school at age 11 but attended his local comprehensive.

On Saturday's show Nigel Lythgoe said he is 'inspirational to guys who think should I begin to dance? A fantastic ambassador for the world of dance."

The competition is stiff: all 4 dancers in the final are professionally trained, Robbie, Charlie & Lizzie at Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom, while Tommy trained at Urdang Academy, London after beginning his dance career in Sweden. It really shows the value of professional training.

I made a short video of Robbie thanking his supporters.

If you'd like a poster to support Robbie with your school name on please email us. If you'd like us to add your school logo we'd be happy to do that.

The free A4 dance poster featuring Robbie and the Dewey number for dance can be downloaded from the bottom of our posters page (at the bottom of the page)

The latest poster in the Celebrations Poster Series in now available.



You can buy this poster individually, or subscribe to the series and get new posters all year round, you’ll always have up-to-date posters.

This has been hotly debated recently with a couple of court cases which had very different outcomes and Terry Pratchett’s powerful Dimblebly lecture. We have the figures behind these opinions in Fact File 2010 pages 112-113.

Thanks to Ann Montgomery, Bury Grammar School Boys, for this photo of our brand new Fiction Self dividers and signs. She writes: 'Thank you for this idea. Please can I order two sets of the stands? The possibilities are endless.'

These are the new posters in our series: Reading & Library posters, World Issues, Posters for English and Celebration posters

Robbie White, our website designer, has got through to the next show in BBC1’s So You Think You Can Dance, Saturday January 16th, 6.30pm.

If you’d like a personalised poster to support him with your school or college name on then just email us

Essential Articles 12: ‘A really good resource’ Sue Ahern, Librarian, Canford School, Wimborne

‘Fact File and Essential Articles are invaluable resources in teaching and preparing students for A & AS level General Studies providing up to date relevant data and articles that are easily accessible to Post 16 students.’ A senior examiner in General Studies with a major awarding organisation, January 2010